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Murders for May
A deadly mixture of reprints and new releases
Manifesto for traditional elegance
Classicism’s enduring relevance and timeless appeal
Sent to the gulags
School trips with the oligarch kids
Revitalising the West
Ukraine has rallied the West and yet again shown our civilisation’s limitless capacity for self-renewal
Why won’t liberals tell the truth about immigration?
The British left want open borders — but won’t admit it
St George didn’t die for this
English nationalism is a paper dragon
War without end: Putin’s Syria model
The war in Ukraine shows tragic parallels to the earlier conflict
The resurrection of France?
A third way to the cynical politics of Macron and Le Pen exists
Amour fou of the star-crossed lovers
The relationship between Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh was one of all-consuming passion
The wine of emperors
The puzzling economics of venison
Most Read
How religion shapes football fandom
The meaning of football is intertwined with the meaning of faith
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Can Russell T Davies write “terfs”?
In Tip Toe, Russell T Davies is more nuanced than one might expect — much to the dismay of gender ideologues
The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
The tears of Keir’s
It was an anticlimactic end to an unconvincing premiership
Symphonies have life
John McCabe: 2 symphonies and cello concerto (Signum Classics)
Manchesterism is dead in the water
Andy Burnham already appears to have abandoned hope for meaningful change
Wilde times at the country house
Gerald Barry’s outrageous The Importance of Being Earnest manages to overmatch the virtuoso original
Tony Blair is an extremist
He should have left public life long ago
The sacrifice that changed Naipaul
The humiliation of his father, forced to slaughter a goat to atone for
angering Hindus, made the writer wary of insulting religion
A bore and a balm
Inferno: Behzod Abdurimov (Alpha Classics)
Crushing the real progressives
The Islamic Republic of Iran, now under fire from the demonic West, is the most progressive society on earth
In defence of Gary Stevenson
If economists were only those with doctorates, we would have to ignore both the market’s wisdom and many of its most perceptive critics
Civilisation needs silence
On cooing babies and other noisy performances
The centre-left is out of ideas
The new journal Arguably barely makes an argument
Dancing with death
The rush to judge Liam Scarlett was cruel and unjust